€11.00 - On Sale
Band : Ulan Bator
Title : 2°
Format : 12"
Year : 2010
Label Ref : Killed n° 4
300 black 180 gr copies
A1- Polaire
A2 - Sea-room
B1 - Silence
B2 - D-press T.V.
B3 - Episcope
Reissue of 1996 5 songs mini CD of these French
Post-Rock Noise Blokes !
1st time on Vinyl !!!
Listen here http://killedbyanaxe.bandcamp.com/album/2
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Ulan Bator "2 Degrees" LP
Second in Killed By An Axe's reissue series, following their well-done Bastard LP from the summer. I can't front and say I knew a whole lot about these guys before getting this, other than that they were a French experimental/industrial band from the Nineties that I'd never actually heard until now. The lack of liner notes doesn't help information-wise, but do some digging and you'll find they have some serious credentials within their "scene": recorded by Michael Gira, collaborators with Faust, releases on Young God. Serious shit. And dig this little tidbit: "they built a recording studio in an unused chalk mine and recorded their first three albums there." Jesus. "2 Degrees" is their second LP from 1996, which received some critical acclaim at the time. It's kraut-influenced post-rock, largely instrumental excepting some passages with evilly distorted serial-killer mumblings, equal parts ominous drone and somewhat prog-like rhythmic lurch and noodling. Exceptionally played, of course, and evoking a creepily European and subterranean darkness. A song like "D-Press TV" and its filthy bassline and downward spiral certainly creates some Swans-like bleakness with a much more subtle delivery. "Silence" is an almost math-rock sounding drone-scape. "Sea-Room" is the monolith here, a purely evil creeper with a queasy bass moan, crisp drums and guitars like needles with the vox of an inter-dimensional monster stalking you through the composition. Impassive, dreary, cold and surprisingly unpretentious sounding. Five long cuts on thick wax with unsettling sleeve images of what I imagine to be an abandoned subway bathroom in some Hostel-like European outpost. Definitely worth some investigation for those of you into dark and weird shit.(RK)
...review from Terminal Boredom